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* Re: Convert v0.9 superblock
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@ 2008-08-01  3:13 ` Neil Brown
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From: Neil Brown @ 2008-08-01  3:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shane W; +Cc: linux-raid

On Wednesday July 30, shane-kernel@csy.ca wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Can a v0.9 superblock be converted to v1.x without
> recreating a raid5 array?  I realize a metadata rebuild
> might be necessary but I don't want to go through a
> complete recreate if that can be avoided.

Not really.
You could probably manage a 0.90 -> 1.0 conversion if you really
wanted to by doing a --create --assume-clean and setting the --size
correctly, but to convert to 1.1 or 1.2 you need to move all the data.

Why do you want to?

NeilBrown

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